Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-01
TO STAND ON IT'S MERITS.
u Private Enterprise that Asks Aims from
No NIan or Corporation.

AUSTIN, TEN, July - le-5
To the Editor of the Gazette:
Moonshine and electricity are old, very
old, older than history. Electricity is
more modern. It is only within the last
century it has been brought into practical
use for civilized man. Street cars, ele
vators and newspapers are run by it, and,
in fact, the electric spark which comes
from the brain OF the editor - electricity
pure and simple, passing from his brain
TO the hand WlCi yields the pen. Some
| are charged more than others, and When
starting from an elevation OF twenty-five
| feet and upward above sea level we have
! proud fights of thought. But starting
| FROM sand edge at an elevation OF shout
three feet six inches above the waters
| CT the Gulf, atmospheric pressure at
| this low level sometimes destroys lis
most sublime effects, and newspa er5
allow such articles to creep into their
columns which, upon careful reading,
simply by innuendO and Implication, re
feet discredit upon private enterprises
which have in view the material interest
of Texas, and persons who do net inha5it
the islands on the Gulf coast, but sre the
producers snnually of l, 500, 600 beles OF
i own 1000 900 head Of cattle, ere more or
less Interested in the mOOnshine project
which proposes to build pier out into
the waters Of the Cuff Of Mexico Until
thirty-six feet Of water is reach
ed, thence parallel with the coast for
1000 yards, thence $50 yards toward the
shore, forming an artificial basin fully
protected On three sides and partially on
on the fourth, making st the point of
entrance to the har5or thirty feet OF
water. This pier of iron will be pro
tected by a bulkhead, or breakWster,
forming one aud the same structure,
,, making a landing for steamers in 81
wealhers and be fully protected from
storms. The pier will be connected with
the mainland by g bridge over the La
guna Madre. Freight will be landed or
n elevation twenty i've feet above storm
; level. No skiff or punt will be needed
during storm and the inhabitants vii
: not require, in time Of cyclones
sloops m0ored at their houses in which
to escape TO higher ground.
beg TO impress upon the management
of the Galveston News, newspaper pub
: ltshed on Galveston Island, about fou
-. feet nine inches above sea level, it mus
- not by innuendo or otherwise attempt Il
: impair the credit Of my associates or my
) self.
Public enterprises of this nature whIct
does not ask aims or bonus from village
or towns, nor subsidy from state o.
federal governments must be consideret
: strictly G private enterprise, carried GU
n upon its merits IS practical engineering
problem, with the presumption money IN
vested in its construction will pay goo
interest on cost collected from the traho
of this continent naturally incident to It
. beg to assure the Galveston News G
my long acquaintance with it-rearly fort
L years-snd my appreciation CT It's abilit
} and sodndness on political questions
IS bot when it uses its columns to the iniur
c. persons and private enterprises
goes beyond newspaper license and WI
be treated accordingly. Respectfully.
JOHN WILLETT.